I have a hard time understanding the benefits of the keyring (e.g. GNOME keyring). I get the convenience parts - I don’t have to enter password for something every time I want to use it (e.g. mounted encrypted drive) and I don’t have to create a secret for some background stuff (applications keys). But the problem is, if I understand it correctly, that every application has the same access to my keyring, so, in theory, a malicious application can just read my Signal key and they can just read all my Signal messages right? Is there a point, then, in encrypting e.g. local database (like Signal) if the key to that database is readily available anyway? Any input is welcome. thanks!
That is the default behavior though. On most mainstream distros at least. The password matches the one that you login with and the keyring is unlocked automatically. And I get it, if I was handling this manually, I may as well just use my password manager right? I was just hoping, that maybe the apps would see only their password. Maybe some dedicated keyring space per app, you know what I mean. I didn’t expect there to be one giant pile of passwords for anybody to grab 😀